Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data isn't sorted, and it's big enough that sorting and counting is impractical.
Introducing Chrome's next-generation Linux sandboxStarting with Chrome 23.0.1255.0, recently released to the Dev Channel, you will see Chrome making use of our next-generation sandbox on Linux and ChromeOS for renderers. We are using a new facility, introduced in Linux 3.5 and developed by Will Drewry called Seccomp-BPF.
Erik MeijerOur favorite iconoclast, , presented a very interesting talk at a recent GOTO Chicago event, Functional Programming Night.
Twisted Oak Studios : Game Developers : Unity 3D DevelopmentI love the Reactive Extension (Rx) library for .Net.
A Misconception of Functional Programming?Recently, I came across an article entitled “Useful Pure Functional Programming” which talks about the advantages of functional programming. However, something struck me about the way the author thinks about functional programming:
Favor Composition Over InheritanceMaking code reusable through public class inheritance (PCI) is so convenient and easy that to say it should be avoided may sound a bit heretical. After all, isn’t this what OOP is about? And yet that’s the position I hold.
Awesome professor from ITU uploads her programming lectures to YouTube. Programming classes without having to pay!Awesome professor from ITU uploads her programming lectures to YouTube. Programming classes without having to pay! (youtube.com)
How we keep GitHub fast · GitHubThe most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping GitHub fast begins with powerful internal tools that expose and explain performance metrics.
A compile-time FFT in C++11Generalised constant expressions are a core language feature introduced to C++ by the recent C++11 standard. A call to a function or method qualified with the new constexpr keyword can now be evaluated at compile-time.
development process - Does software testing methodology rely on flawed dataThis Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.